Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Canty

Mr. Presiding Judge POWELL

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

On October 29, 1924, there went to trial in the Tenth Judicial District Court of Galveston County, Texas, before Honorable J. C. Canty, Judge Presiding, the personal injury suit of William D. Wright, Jr. v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. The pertinent portions of plaintiff’s petition read as follows:

“That in the course of the work of repairing and renovating one of the defendant’s locomotives, which said work the plaintiff was doing and assisting, the foreman in charge, of said work instructed this plaintiff to…